20 Mental Models For A Good Life

Revisiting some of the most famous mental models

James Ssekamatte
5 min readJan 4, 2023
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A mental model is an explanation of someone’s thought process about how something works in the real world. Since we cannot keep all the details of the world in our brains, we use mental models to make certain practices more efficient.

Over the years, some people have developed models that can help us adopt a more positive and productive approach to life. Some of these have become very popular in the world of personal development so much so that we no longer recognize them as mental models.

But in this article, we shall be revisiting these to hopefully remind you of some of them as well as introduce to you some of those that you may not have heard about before.

This article will quickly introduce them to you with the hope that you will note down those that you think might be useful to you and go do some further research about them and hopefully find ways of applying them in your daily life.

Here are the mental models.

The Growth Mindset

This mental model involves believing that you can improve and grow through effort and learning, rather than being fixed in your abilities.

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